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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind

by: Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819; Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819. Strictures on Lord Kaims's discourse on the original diversity of mankind; Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802, printer; American Philosophical Society

Publication date: 1787
Topics: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Skin Pigmentation, Continental Population Groups, Anthropology, Physical
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, Market Street
Collection: medicalheritagelibrary; medicineintheamericas; usnationallibraryofmedicine; americana; medicallibrary
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Language: English
Item Size: 196.9M

"The substance of the ... essay was delivered in the annual oration, before the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, February 28th, 1787. - And the whole is published at the request of the Society."- p. [3]

"Strictures on Lord Kaims's [i. e. Kames's] discourse on the original diversity of mankind" (31 p. at end) refutes the theories set forth in the preliminary discourse to his Sketches of the history of man

Signatures: [A]² B-T⁴

Film 633 reel 89 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 89, no. 1776)

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints

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Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.

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Addeddate: 2012-03-29 20:11:52
Collection_added: medicallibrary
Identifier: 2572030R.nlm.nih.gov
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Ppi: 400